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• Date de parution : 20/06/2011
• Editeur : Wiley-blackwell
• EAN : 9781444399585
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• Support : Livre numérique

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• Thème : Non attribué
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This enlightening book makes visible the lives and works of women who played a critical role in the development of geography as an academic field.A rare and detailed analysis of the geographical work of 30 individual women geographers from 1850 to 1970Includes oral histories from women who have... Voir plus

This enlightening book makes visible the lives and works of women who played a critical role in the development of geography as an academic field.A rare and detailed analysis of the geographical work of 30 individual women geographers from 1850 to 1970Includes oral histories from women who have held appointments in British universities since World War IIMakes the work of women geographers visible and challenges the notion of pre 1970s geography as an overwhelmingly masculine fieldMakes an important contribution to debates about the theoretical and methodological framing of the historiography of geography